Lady Adventuress 02 - The Education Of Lord Hartley - Plot & Excerpts
“You know that I have never been one for patience. It is not in my nature,” she explained, somewhat chagrined. “It never was, I am well aware. Certainly, your retribution was always swift to follow.” “Then you should have learnt your lesson and ceased to play tricks on me. Now, there are some questions I must ask you…” Having partaken of a quick, though delicious, supper, hurriedly concocted by her brother’s excellent cook, Maggie wasted no time asking Frederick about the gossip that had flooded every English publication exception the new quarterly edition of The Boy’s Own Guide to Outdoor Amusements. And that, Maggie thought, was only because the journal had come out too early to have been able to include it. “Gossip? Well, yes,” said Frederick thoughtfully. “The journals do seem to think that Hart is quite set to offer for Lady Alice, but I doubt that he would agree with the assessment. He seemed to me quite preoccupied with some other matter entirely. If you ask me, my dearest Maggie, I would tell you that Lord Hartley has been dashing about town with an air of a man desperately trying to forget something that will not leave his mind.
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